How about making these cashew clusters for National Chocolate Covered Cashews Day , they look so good and would be great to snack on whilst watching a movie or to make for a gift for someone special .. really great if you place them in a pretty bag or box
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So simply delicious! If you like salt with your chocolate, use salted cashews. If you would prefer, use unsalted cashews. Adapted from the QVC website.
- 1(12 ounce) package semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1ounce unsweetened chocolate
- 2cups roasted cashews(whatever size you like)
April 21 – National Chocolate-Covered Cashews Day
Five Food Finds about Cashews
- Pistachio, mango, cashew and poison ivy are in the same family.
- Cashews are native to Costa Rica and Central America. The fresh cashew nut has a substance inside that produce a big burn and rash in skin and mouth, at the same time this is a highly valuable product known as Cashew Nut Shell Liquid or CNSL, ingredient that have special structural features for transformation into specialty chemicals and high value polymers, this is important considering the fact that, since this is a renewable resource, is better than synthetics.
- One thing is the cashew nut and a different thing is the cashew apple, this last one is a kind of fruit to which it’s attached the nut, this fleshy fruit has an aroma some people love while others dislike, the most common way of preparation of this fruit is doing a tasteful juice mixed with water and sugar.
- Cashews in Costa Rica are harvested during March and April.
- A quite interesting experience is to burn in wood fire a raw cashew nut, this CNSL is highly flammable and while it burns produces impressive tiny explosions. Kids shouldn’t try this without parent’s supervision. Gases and fumes can also irritate, so this experiment should be done in open spaces.
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